With Elon Musk’s political power coming into question as he prepares to step back from Washington, what other political figures might become the most influential during the Trump administration? NewsNation political contributor Denise Gitsham nominates HHS Secretary Robert F.

Tensions between Tesla CEO Elon Musk and key members of President Donald Trump’s cabinet have escalated dramatically, culminating in a profanity-laced confrontation in the West Wing that reverberated through the halls of the Oval Office,

As Elon Musk’s DOGE slashed the federal government, he was a political brawler online. Now that he has stepped away from D.C., his messaging has shifted back to business.

Musk said he will be "helpful where I can be helpful."

After a controversial political foray and mounting pressure from investors, Elon Musk shifts focus from government disruption back to tech, pledging less political spending and more attention to his companies.

He fell from grace as effortlessly as he rose. Like a dime-store Icarus, he took too many chances, never understood the risks and flew too close to the sun. Wrapped in the halo of his social-media superstardom, he was blinded to the reality of his circumstances until it was too late.

Elon Musk is still filling his own pockets with federal welfare, even if his Department of Government Efficiency was all smoke and mirrors.

Elon Musk is about to wrap things up in Washington, DC. He told people on an earnings call that he planned to spend more time at Tesla, whose sales and net income have cratered since Musk became the Trump administration’s hatchet man in its war against the federal bureaucracy. Oh wait, that actually happened a month ago.

Musk sued the liberal nonprofit in 2023 after it published a report that showed mainstream ads appearing beside pro-Nazi content on his social media site X.